not that easy to put an aircooled engine in a water cooled
body...engine bay is quite different.

or is the 82 gas been converted to water cooled?

if your van is titled as a diesel you should not require smog
etc...unless you get stopped by a savvy CHP officer...

you could also sell your diesel westy to someone else, and buy an
83.5 and up WBX westy...

diesel westy's are still desirable in some parts of the country...

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>My 82 westy d is dead low compression. I have found an 82 westy that
>has a 1.8 gas & rebuilt trans for $3k. I will take a look at it
>tomorrow see how it drives. I have been looking for a replacement
>for the 1.6 NA but the cost & really it needs the 1.9t + cost of
>installation is going run me over $4k. Also with the cost of diesel
>the few more miles per gal makes not to seem cost affective at this
>point. But I'm in CA & hope DMV don't not want to see the bus if so
>that's not going to work.
>
>Any feed back from you all.